AI generated creatures excite a compassion missing for living ones? It must
be the big eyes.
8-(:^?
Paul
On Sun, Jul 21, 2024 at 5:03 PM James via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> GOD BLESSES ALL BEAUTIFULLY GENERATED AI CREATURES.
> Honestly, the comments on Faceboo
The link for the archives is returning a 403 Forbidden page. It should be
publicly accessible, or at a minimum accessible to subscribers. Anyone with
admin access should be able to change that and restore access for
NetBehaviour members and the public.
I'm sending this email to the netbehaviour-ow
It's 1:08 a.m. and I'm stopping.
On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 7:35 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>
> Sleepy-Time Jinashi
>
> https://youtu.be/X-AUv946ht8 video
>
> well it's jinashi by goshi some / of us have to take a breath
> or / it's early in the
Hm. Secret identities are revealed. I am kind of amazed.
Are Juan Teodosio Pescador and Paul Hertz the same person?
Yes, Juan Teodosio Pescador is an alias used by Paul Hertz. Under this
pseudonym, Hertz has explored different aspects of his artistic practice,
often blending humor, critique, and
Early Monday morning, before the sun had parted the curtains, I rose from
bed with an ache in my text. It was so bad that I woke my companion and
reader. She checked me out and swiftly took me to a writer’s clinic, where
I was diagnosed with inflammation of the appendix. We rushed off to an
editori
In a war where generational trauma haunts all parties, it is extremely
difficult to see a way forward for peace. Nevertheless, I would offer this
link to a recent text by Mushon Zer-Aviv, which addresses that question.
https://medium.com/@mushon/your-empathy-is-killing-us-1a50a4fc0488
I can't rem
Hi Alan,
You can complain to the internet service provider for asondheim.org, which
seems to be wildwestdomains.com, according to the whois registry. However,
this is unlikely to result in any satisfactory outcome, as wildwestdomains
is basically a privacy shield service provider (see
https://en.w
<
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> I can maybe maybe do something with these re: the tools I have and/or
> perhaps Kirill wd also be interested, we collaborate, let me know if this
> is of interest to you -
>
> - Alan
>
> On Thu, Nov 2, 2023 at 11:08 AM Pa
DEAD
BODY
WORK
FLOW
KILL
ZONE
BOMB
SHOW
FIRE
BURN
BONE
CAGE
KNOW
PAIN
FEEL
RAGE
EVIL
TIME
HOPE
SLAY
BUSY
WORD
GAME
PLAY
Chicago, 2023
Words for further elaboration with software.
// Paul
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pologies for the
> length of the reply, and I may well be wrong here of course, or on the
> wrong track. - I'm far too distraught over all of this, the Nation
> notwithstanding -
>
> Best, Alan
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 10:14 PM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
> netbe
Reading your text on NetBehaviour ++ wondering at 'absolute terror on both
sides' yes but also the locking out of consideration that it could be
otherwise, the contrasting of opinions theirs and ours, supposedly, pumped
up beyond hysteria. Remembering what a calamity the reaction to the attack
on t
I especially like the last line, NetworkError when attempting to fetch
resource.
Though I cannot fathom its meaning.
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, 7:51 AM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>
> Zen Koan from Master GPT
>
> http://www.alansondheim.org/CHATGPTZ
*What is the difference between a stove?*
The term "stove" can refer to different types of cooking appliances, so the
differences between them depend on the specific types being compared. Here
are some common types of stoves and their differences:
1. Gas Stove: This type of stove uses natural gas
GlitChicago was a gallery show of some 22 exhibiting artists plus a night
of performances and a community discussion at the Ukrainian Institute of
Modern Art in Chicago in 2014.
The catalog has been down for some years, but is back up at
https://paulhertz.net/glitchicago/.
We thought maybe a gall
eces studying
> fractal properties; whatever aesthetic value they had would have been in
> the math perhaps?
>
> Thanks!, Alan, and absolutely beautiful work of course! --
>
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 12:07 AM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbe
n painting
>> field becoming dynamic, motional? (I say this as an admirer of Martin's
>> paintings and her book "Paintings, Writings, Remembrances). Or did you
>> perhaps see the massive 3D immersive spectacles (teamLab stuff, and other
>> current projection environments
ojection environments) as a trap? How did the glass architecture
> change your visuals (was 150 Media Stream concert different from what you
> posted now?).
>
> with regards
> Johannes Birringer
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 6:29 AM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
> netbeha
I am very pleased to announce the release a video for my recent
collaborative project Campos | Temporales. Campos is an "intermedia
experience" where algorithmic animation and new music share formal
structures in time and space to create a hybrid art form. Composer
Christopher Walczak wrote the mu
So sorry to hear this. This virus is no fun. Propagated by the Church of No
Fun, most likely. I wish you all speedy recovery.
// Paul
On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 8:43 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>
> Covid
>
> http://www.alansondheim.org/crossroa
Bias in a classifier AI functions somewhat like glitch in a media encoding
system: until someone hits the configuration that reveals it, we don't see
it. The bias in reading emotional states is compelling, but what also gets
my attention in these images is the determination of gender. Just what is
ldn't figure out what was
> going on. -
>
> I remember the game of Life of course, and "animals" in turbulence (static
> formations in moving water, but the term might be outmoded now).
>
> Your images and videos are amazing!
>
> Best, Alan, and thank you!
>
>
I think some of my flocking images might interest you, as might the code
behind them. I implemented Craig Reynolds' Boids Algorithm building on code
by Daniel Shiffman. I wanted to use the simulated flocks for drawing, not
unlike your multiple image bird paths.
Flocking and steering algorithms com
One of the day's small pleasures, thank you.
On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 8:02 PM Corey Eiseman wrote:
> Perpetual Canvas No.381
> https://toegristle.com/?id=381
>
>
> ___
> NetBehaviour mailing list
> NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org
> https://lists.net
The present to which I refer is already some hours past, but FWIW (not
much), I refer you to:
https://assemblag.es/@Ignotus_Mago/109621480675424897
best wishes for the new ears,
Paul
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Wonderful performance! Puts me in mind of Laetitia Sonami, who studied with
David Behrman.
¡Feliz año nuevo!
-- Paul
On Sat, Dec 31, 2022 at 2:21 AM Daniele Minns via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> Long slow creative journey driven by a fascination with combining a
Grim but for a ray of hope, my sci-fi offering for the holidays (or not),
please consult:
https://assemblag.es/@Ignotus_Mago/109571374095824115
May the stubborn human spirit keep you warm and connected,
Paul
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___
Now on Mastodon as
@ignotus_m...@assemblag.es
and adjusting everything in slow motion.
// Paul
On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 7:21 AM marc.garrett via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> I have a new account on Mastodon, which I'm still figuring out. Like all
> new website vi
Does anyone have recommendations on what server to apply to for an account?
There's such a proliferation.
// Paul
On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 4:35 PM abram stern via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> Long time lurker here!
>
> I'm at @ap...@post.lurk.org
> Or @ap...@assemb
So happy to hear this.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2022 at 2:57 PM Helen Varley Jamieson <
he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> YAY!!
> On 12.08.22 21:32, Mark Hancock wrote:
>
> So good to hear, Marc.
>
> Much love to you.
> Mark
>
> On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 at 15:10, giselle beiguelman via NetBehaviour <
>
Thanks for this!
-- Paul
On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 7:46 PM Simon Mclennan via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> I recorded a version of A Love Supreme today... after many years...
> First had the record when I was 20ish and had my first band, but we never
> attempted the
there any chance this could be imported and expanded?
> Thanks!, Alan
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 1:17 PM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> Long days working with numbers, code, imagination slowly bring results.
>>
>
Long days working with numbers, code, imagination slowly bring results.
The structures in this study may develop into several projects, but most
particularly now they are intended for a new intermedia project, a
collaboration with a composer that will open in September in Chicago. More
news on tha
Using a VR headset with the Wander app, this was a fun but disorienting
place. The shifts in scale (what size am I, next to a discarded water
bottle that looms gigantic in my field of view, or down at the level of the
pavement or the gallery floor?) and the opportunity of seeing the roof, the
utili
That splatter painting is pretty, yeah, but not over the top, where you'll
find Howardena Pindell, whose work also has the grace to plumb the
histories of women and people of color in its materiality without tossing
any sops to gentry looking for beautiful, valuable objects that will
comfort them w
Thanks for the links, Alan. This looks like a wonderful resource. I hope I
can give these texts the attention they deserve.
// Paul
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 7:56 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>
> The Computing Literature Book Series
>
>
>
> Tha
Tätigkeit
Tatsache
Take them apart and a fact is an act-thing, Tat+sache. Tätigkeit seems not
so much an "activity" as a state (-keit) of acting, but that would be a
clumsy translation. At least, as I recall from my later studies of a
language my parents tried to teach me.
There's a lapidary ph
ive stuff now) and wondered how the text was generated - it's beautiful
> - thanks - Alan
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 4:22 AM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> Prose poem composed for the Fubar2k21 Glitch Festival in
Prose poem composed for the Fubar2k21 Glitch Festival in Zagreb, performed
online Thursday, October 7, 2021. The numbers refer to a
combinatorial scheme used in generating the text.
00.
Home, home on the screen,
where nullmachines harvest dataflesh.
Home on the web, where disinfocowboys
brand un
Hi Jorn,
Doreen Rios (doreenrios.com, Insta: @doreenrios) might also be someone to
contact.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 10:59 AM Jorn Ebner wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I have been working for a feminist performance project called
> re.act.feminism for its last two installments. We are currently researchi
Nice. Glad to hear the Flash barrier can perhaps be overthrown. Liked the
animations, too, especially "I was of three minds..."
-- Paul
On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 2:12 PM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> With the help of the amazing people
Somewhat in haste...
AI in the late 80s, when Brooks wrote his essay, was apparently in crisis.
The efficacy of the models promoted by Marvin Minksy and other researchers
pursuing the sort of data-driven "expert systems" were already being
questioned. There were other models, as Alan mentions. The
There's an essay, "Intelligence Without Representation" that Brooks wrote
in 1987, http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/papers/representation.pdf, that
offered what was then a new point of view on how to consider AI.
// Paul
On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:10 PM Paul Hertz wrote:
> Hi Max,
>
> The ro
Hi Max,
The robotics researcher Rodney Brooks back in the late 1980s argued the AI
based on the construction of a "knowledge base" was bound to fail. He made
the case that a robot adapting to an environment was far more likely to
achieve intelligence of the sort that humans demonstrate precisely b
x27;s hard to hear? And I hope we get to see
> you in Chicago!
>
> Best, Alan
>
> On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 1:05 PM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour <
> netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
>
>> This is probably the sort of thing I should mention in this list, the
&g
This is probably the sort of thing I should mention in this list, the
product of long research and hard work, though I guess it may also qualify
as self-promo.
*Fools Paradise*, a virtual world based on the "Proverbs of Hell" of
English poet and artist William Blake, can be downloaded from
https:/
Mozilla Hubs could be interesting, and is accessible both for VR goggles
and on a monitor.
However, I find something very valuable in video conversations, in seeing
one another, and as a technology it seems more mature than VR. I have
created art in VR, maybe that's why its imperfections as a medi
more in harmony with Leonardo as I understand his work. Of
> course I can't prove this, but if I had to try to offer reasons I would say
> that Leonardo was critical of today's world, including its art world, in
> advance; he was as skeptical of the "great artist" paradigm as
Yes, thanks. Lot to mull over.
-- Paul
On Tue, Jun 8, 2021 at 9:56 PM Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
> Find the reference to qm somewhat problematic but this is an absolutely
> stunning account - at least for me - I've learned a lot from it. Thank
> you!
>
> Wow! - Alan - hope there's a full essay/book
I would greatly miss Alan's posts, even if I don't always read them. They
seem to me to be part of the rhythm of the list. When I do read them, I
find pleasure in working my way through the words to the ideas and back
again.
As one more person who has managed lists (for Chicago media artists,
prim
I value this list, though I am usually rather quiet about it. I think the
conversations that I have read here and any we might have in the future are
a practical impossibility on social media. Other peopel have already stated
the reasons why.
I have not thought of this list as a place to post my w
OMG, Alan! We're talking in prose!
;^},
Paul
On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 9:18 PM Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
> ASTOUNDING DISCOVERY!!!
>
> Do you know that EVERY OTHER number is divisible by 2?
> I mean without a remainder! THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE!
> Further!!:
> Do you know that EVERY OTHER number
Routledge, Cantoni and Tardini, Internet, but it's from 2006. For older Net
> stuff I even have a few BB&N original papers here.
> How do you describe the history, current culture, putative origins and
> futures, of a multifaceted civilisation that's planet-wide? ..
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520268388/mainframe-experimentalism
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 11:14 AM Paul Hertz wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> I don't know how much you want a foundational text versus a contemporary
> text. I found Annemarie Chandler and Norie Neumark's anthology *At a
> Distance: Precu
Hi Alan,
I don't know how much you want a foundational text versus a contemporary
text. I found Annemarie Chandler and Norie Neumark's anthology *At a
Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet* useful for the
"Prehistories of New Media" course I taught:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/book
As Steve Bannon, strategist and first Chief of Staff for #fakepresident
stated openly, the goal is to damage government to such an extent that it
can be taken over.
There is evidence for organized criminal gangs and right wing provocateurs
doing much of the looting. There are some comfortable whit
I have been considering the ways in which this current crisis over racism
is different from the demonstrations of the 50s and 60s, and also how I
might open a brief window on some of the events that do not show up so much
in the news, largely concerned with the dramatic extremes of confrontation
an
Hello everyone,
My wife and I have now spent over a month in social isolation in our house
in Chicago. We're fortunate to have a building with an apartment upstairs
and a storefront studio and small apartment downstairs. I work on new work
or print old work and archive it in the back apartment. We
Spartan Life seems likely. The hosts would try to take the interviewee to a
"safe" zone of the world. Interviews we frequently interrupted by taking
out marauding players or having to reboot if the hosts or interviewee was
taken out instead. It was a mix of hilarious context and thought-provoking
q
Alan, hay amores que matan, DSOL or D, SOL.
:^)
-- Paul
On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 6:08 PM Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
> Domain Attack (?) or Deep Sign of Love (DSOL!*)
>
> *Not related to Dance Shoes of Love!
>
> http://www.alansondheim.org/stats.png
>
> There seems to have been a coordinated attack
Well, Michael, I have mostly been bored by the whole spectacle and
generally avoiding the spate of memes it generated.
As for what I think: Cattelan is staging his critique within the very
system he is critiquing. I submit that this deserves some respect, if not
applause. Andrea Fraser's intervent
++ Yeah, the concentration of your writing in this moment moving.
// Paul
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 1:08 PM Paul Hertz wrote:
> Wondering if you know Ronald Johnson's extended poemtext ARK?
>
> -- Paul
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:26 PM Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Time
>>
>>
>> http://www
Wondering if you know Ronald Johnson's extended poemtext ARK?
-- Paul
On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:26 PM Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
> Time
>
>
> http://www.alansondheim.org/before.jpg
> http://www.alansondheim.org/here.jpg
> http://www.alansondheim.org/after.jpg
>
> seert dna seiks dna slair eht ,
41. If I am deeply moved by a work of art, believing it to be by the artist
C and then discover that it was actually by the forger D does this
invalidate my feelings?
a fave,
-- Psul
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 3:51 PM Michael Szpakowski
wrote:
> I have a short text in the new volume of Borderless P
Garlic mixed with water spray is an old folk remedy for aphids, though
ymmv.
-- Paul
On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 9:43 AM Helen Varley Jamieson <
he...@creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
> just wanted to report some good ecological news: moving the insect hotel
> to the sunnier end of the balcony has had a p
Your fellow meerkats thank you and are ready to emerge into the sunshine
once the shadow of the hawk is well past.
-- Paul
On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 10:30 AM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> I have no idea if anything I've done anywhere is ranked but
In Chicago, we've been wondering where the lightning bugs have gone. When I
was a child in Ohio in the 1950s we used to drive out into the country to
see clouds of them lifting off the fields as the last glimmers of the
summer sun faded. When we moved to Chicago 30 years ago our son caught them
in
Not a ritual for the solstice, but a pebble in my pocket to jog memory to
better moments when I touch it:
https://vimeo.com/79936247
-- Paul
On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 9:03 AM Ruth Catlow via NetBehaviour <
netbehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Please share your ritual artwor
Very funny, Michael. I have faved the sketch on Flickr.
OTOH, "new media art" for me doesn't bring to mind Internet '99 but rather
the convergence of video art + interactive art in the mid 80s, called "New
Media Art" starting more or less in the early 90s.
As to where it went—I don't see so much
Didn't even realize 2600 was still around. Now I have an excuse for going
to that most dangerous of places, a bookstore. I look forward to
discovering your essay.
-- Paul
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>
> My Article in 2600, The Hacker Quarterly, Autumn 2017, 34/3
>
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